Commentary
Even if the Iran war stops, restarting production and transport for fertilizers and their components could take weeks—at a crucial moment for planting.
Noah Gordon, Lucy Corthell
Research
Korea Clean Chip Strategy: Linking Clean Energy to Semiconductor Leadership
How Korea can leverage its proven crisis-to-opportunity playbook to secure semiconductor leadership in an era of clean energy transition.
Published on Jul 11, 2025
About the Authors
Darcie Draudt-Véjares
Fellow, Asia Program
Darcie Draudt-Véjares is a fellow in the Carnegie Asia Program.
Hannah Jeong
Tim Sahay
Tim Sahay is the co-editor of The Polycrisis at Phenomenal World and the co-director of the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University.
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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